George Lucas’ Abandoned STAR WARS Series Cost $40 Million an Episode and Would’ve ‘Blown Up’ Franchise
A former Lucasfilm producer says George Lucas' abandoned live-action Star Wars show would've cost $40 million an episode and "blown up" the franchise.
Cancelled Series Star Wars: Underworld Was So Expensive, It Would've 'Blown Up' the Star Wars Universe
Star Wars prequels producer Rick McCallum recently revealed that the legendary cancelled series Star Wars: Underworld would’ve cost a whopping $40 million per episode to make — effectively dooming it to be axed for budget reasons.
STAR WARS: UNDERWORLD - George Lucas' Unmade TV Series Was Going To Cost Over $2.4 Billion To Produce
In the late 2000s, George Lucas started planning the first-ever Star Wars TV series. Underworld never happened and, thanks to producer Rick McCallum, we now have new details about the unmade project.
George Lucas’ Scrapped STAR WARS: UNDERWORLD Would Have Cost Billions; New Details Revealed
In the ever-expanding world of Star Wars , few unrealized projects have sparked as much curiosity as Star Wars: Underworld . It was George Lucas’ ambitious attempt to bring a live-action series to television,
George Lucas’ Cancelled Star Wars Show Would Have Cost Over a Billion Dollars
The budget will decide your fate.” In 2005, Star Wars creator George Lucas made his first convention appearance since 1987 to celebrate Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, at the time the saga’s sixth and final film.
George Lucas' Axed ‘Star Wars' Series Cost ‘$40 Million an Episode' and ‘Would've Blown Up' the Franchise: ‘Disney Would've Never' Bought Lucasfilm If It Got Made
George Lucas’ “Star Wars” producer Rick McCallum recently appeared on an episode of the “Young Indy Chronicles” podcast and teased what would’ve been “Star Wars: Underworld,” an ambitious television series that was one of the last “Star Wars” projects Lucas was working on before he sold the franchise to Disney in 2012 for $4.
George Lucas' unmade Star Wars show was so expensive and risky that it would have cost $40 million per episode and “blown up the whole Star Wars universe"
"The problem was that each episode was bigger than the films, so the lowest I could get it down to with the tech that existed then was $40 million an episode." Star Wars: Underwor
Producer Rick McCallum Says Lucas' Scrapped Live-Action TV Series Would Have Nixed Disney ‘Star Wars' Purchase
On the "Young Indy Chronicles" podcast, the producer best associated with the prequel films called the aborted series "dark," ...
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George Lucas’ scrapped billion dollar TV show would’ve “blown-up the Star Wars universe”
The scrapped TV show George Lucas planned in the early 2000s would have had a massive impact on the Star Wars universe, according to producer Rick McCallum. READ MORE: Here’s every ‘Star Wars ...
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Details Emerge on George Lucas' Canceled 'Star Wars' Series
According to former "Star Wars" producer Rick McCallum, the series had a ton of material, cost a ton of money, and was nothing that had been created in the franchise before. McCallum joined the ...
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‘Star Wars: Underworld’ had 60 scripts before Disney shut it down, fans joke: "Better than anything Kathleen Kennedy ever came up with"
Underworld was set to be one of the most exciting projects in the franchise’s history—a live-action TV series straight from the mind of George Lucas himself.
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Producer & Writer: Sharon Wood Associate Producer: Grace Raso Editor: Stephanie Challberg Series Producer: David Schneider Executive Producers: George Lucas & Rick McCallum ...